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Tennis - A Cultural History (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Tennis - A Cultural History (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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This is the second edition of the highly acclaimed and bestselling
comprehensive history of tennis which was the first truly scholarly
history of any individual sport. Supported by a startling wealth of
linguistic and documentary research, Gillmeister charts the global
evolution of tennis from its origins in 12th century France where
it emerged as a more peaceful variety of ribald football played in
monasteries. By the 16th century, it had become the favourite
pastime of the European aristocracy and had, in the wake of the
Spanish conquistadors, even reached the Americas. The prestige of
the game also led to its popularity among Renaissance poets and
playwrights. After a gradual decline in the 18th and 19th centuries
the medieval game revived in the 1870s in the form of lawn tennis.
The new game dispensed with the expensive walled courts, discarded
the complicated rules of the old game and was played in a natural
setting. From England with its famous Wimbledon tournament it
spread to the European continent and to the United States where the
Davis Cup was born.Gillmeister debunks several firmly established
myths about the history of the game and rare colour photographs and
medieval and renaissance drawings generously adorn the text. A
delight for the sports fan and the scholar alike, Tennis is the
authoritative text on the sport.
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